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Promised Land – first look reviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/08/promised-land-berlin-film-festival-review
Gus Van Sant's fracking drama pits Matt Damon's energy executive against John Krasinski's eco-dreamboat in a battle for the minds of backwater farmers and the heart of Rosemarie DeWitt's moony schoolma'am<p>Here is an entertaining anti-corporate thriller directed by Gus Van Sant, very much in the mainstream-activist mode that gave us <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/126910/milk" title="">Milk</a> and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/69596/good-will-hunting" title="">Good Will Hunting</a> (rather than, say, the avant-gardist who directed Gerry and Paranoid Park, or the fey trendoid who brought us <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/141839/restless" title="">Restless</a> or <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/106036/last.days" title="">Last Days</a>). The star is Matt Damon, who of course gained rather more than simply acting chops by co-scripting and producing Good Will Hunting (along with Ben Affleck, and look where he's ended up). Damon has produced this one too, and was apparently scheduled to direct, before dropping out and calling in Van Sant.</p><p>Promised Land hones in on a controversy du jour: fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, the process of releasing natural gas from shale deposits by blasting underground drilling beds with water and sand. The Josh Fox 2010 documentary <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/139927/gasland" title="">Gasland</a> has done much to discredit the process, suggesting that water contamination and gas leaks have badly affected communities where fracking operations have been set up.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/08/promised-land-berlin-film-festival-review">Continue reading...</a>FilmBerlin film festivalBerlin film festival 2013OilOilEnergy industrySmart metersGus van SantMatt DamonTelevisionFri, 08 Feb 2013 16:55:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/08/promised-land-berlin-film-festival-reviewPhotograph: PRPromised Land? That's over yon valleyPhotograph: PRPromised Land? That's over yon valleyAndrew Pulver2013-02-08T16:55:54Z